Isaiah 47:5
“Sit silent, and go into darkness, || O daughter of the Chaldeans, || For they no longer cry to you, Mistress of kingdoms.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
4Our redeemer [is] YHWH of Hosts, || His Name [is] the Holy One of Israel.
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:9He keeps the feet of His saints, || And the wicked are silent in darkness, || For man does not become mighty by power.
Psalms 46:10Desist, and know that I [am] God, || I am exalted among nations, || I am exalted in the earth.
Isaiah 13:19And Babylon, the beauty of kingdoms, || The glory, the excellence of the Chaldeans, || Has been as overthrown by God, || With Sodom and with Gomorrah.
Isaiah 14:23“And have made it for a possession of a hedgehog, || And ponds of waters, || And swept it with the broom of destruction,” || A declaration of YHWH of Hosts!
Isaiah 47:7And you say, I am mistress for all time, || While you have not laid these things to your heart, || You have not remembered the latter end of it.
Jeremiah 25:10And I have destroyed from them the voice of rejoicing, and the voice of joy, voice of bridegroom and voice of bride, noise of millstones, and the light of lamps.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 47:2-7
Babylon Threatened. ( b. c. 708.) 1 Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate. 2 Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers. 3 Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet thee as a man. 4 As for our redeemer, the Lord of hosts is his name, the… Read the whole commentary →